As VotingMachine said in comments on George Talbot's report: "Let's send a big Alabama shout-out to Washington State Senator Patty Murray, the Boeing-backed politician in tennis shoes who said: "I would challenge anybody to tell me that they've stood on a line in Alabama and seen anybody building anything.

"Are you beginning to get a clue, ma'am?"

Then there's a spicy message from "retired" that includes the suggestion to "kiss our southern grits."

People in the Seattle area had already been watching.

The Puget Sound Business Journal showed its readers the factory layout obtained by Mobile's CBS affiliate WKRG-TV, with the first observation being "it's big."